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Project Manager & PR Specialist

PROFILE

Highly motivated and self-directed professional with 25 years of project management, marketing and public relations experience seeks professional alliance with nonprofit or business organization focused on health, community, entrepreneurship and/or personal growth.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Project Management

• Founded and managed four successful small businesses
• Directed university-based wellness & fitness program; developed curriculum and taught classes
• Created and coordinated competitive athletic events, educational workshops and seminars, social events and philanthropic and/or entrepreneurial activities
• Developed and implemented a nonprofit foundation to support world-caliber athletes
• Developed and implemented fundraising strategies; recruited volunteers for nonprofit organizations

Leadership

• Developed strong leadership skills and team-building techniques to better motivate others to accomplish company and personal goals
• Analyzed outdated company management techniques and developed and implemented a leadership-based management module
• Created method for analyzing employee strengths and weaknesses and used data to develop team-building activities that enhanced employees' creative abilities, empowered them to create change and promoted their individual growth
• Directed activities for more than 800 instructors, graduate assistants, office staff and support personnel over tenure as wellness & fitness coordinator

Marketing & Public Relations

• Delivered presentations and coordinated high-profile public relations tours, working with international and national television, radio and periodical media
• Developed and implemented programming, created marketing and promotional plans and organized registration for educational programs involving over 1,500 participants
• Implemented marketing plans, innovative promotions and new programming for self-supporting, nonprofit university-based wellness & fitness program, successfully increasing enrollment and income by 300% in less than three years; developed and administered annual budgets
• Authored articles; planned and designed newsletters with a circulation of 3,500

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Love Entrepreneurial Consulting (current) Nationwide
• Schultz Foundation: Director of Public Relations (1996-2000) Philadelphia, PA & Foster City, CA
• Kolkka Design and Manufacturing: Business Consultant (1998) Redwood City, CA
• University of Oklahoma: Director Fitness & Wellness Program (1987-1996) Norman, OK
• Entrepreneurial Ventures (1974-1986)
  • Fun Country Gymnastics Ardmore, OK
  • Purcell Gymnastics Purcell, OK
  • Fitness INC/Fitness LTD Norman, OK

EDUCATION

University of Oklahoma
Bachelor of Science: Health Promotion/Exercise Science
Postgraduate Studies: Health Promotion/Wellness/Health Behavior
Center for Public Management and Education Development
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Certification

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